"mishear" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mishear.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mishears [present, singular, third-person], mishearing [participle, present], misheard [participle, past], misheard [past]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English misheren, from Old English mishȳran, mishīeran (“to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey”), equivalent to mis- + hear. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misheren}} Middle English misheren, {{inh|en|ang|mishȳran}} Old English mishȳran, {{m|ang|mishīeran|t=to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey}} mishīeran (“to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey”), {{prefix|en|mis|hear}} mis- + hear Head templates: {{en-verb|mishears|mishearing|misheard}} mishear (third-person singular simple present mishears, present participle mishearing, simple past and past participle misheard)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To hear wrongly. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to hear wrongly): misverstaan (Dutch), verkeerd verstaan (Dutch), sich verhören (German), παρακούω (parakoúo) (Greek), przesłyszeć się [perfective] (Polish), ослышаться (oslyšatʹsja) (Russian), missuppfatta (Swedish) Translations (to understand wrongly): slecht begrijpen (Dutch), verkeerd begrijpen (Dutch), missverstehen (German), sich verhören (German), missuppfatta (Swedish), missförstå (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mishear-en-verb-~swkejiV Disambiguation of 'to hear wrongly': 99 1 Disambiguation of 'to understand wrongly': 94 6
  2. To misunderstand.
    Sense id: en-mishear-en-verb-4MrGrm4I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with mis-, English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lapsus auris

Inflected forms

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